Labels seeking more than $13m in damages from The Pirate Bay

February 17th, 2009 by Music Ally

The criminal trial of the founders of Swedish P2P site The Pirate Bay kicked off yesterday, with reports that the labels are seeking more than $13 million in damages from the company. Those founders are continuing their policy of turning the case into a 'spectrial' – with some of them Twittering from the dock during the first day. “How the hell did they think this was going to be something else than EPIC FAIL for the prosecution? We're winning so hard.” being one example. However, while TPB may win the PR war (among its online supporters at least), the fact remains that its founders could face a jail term if convicted – so the trial is deadly serious.Source: Ars Technica – http://tinyurl.com/aa2mxw